What are the iconic guitars in your opinion?

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Chuck Berry​

 

The issue with that guitar is that with its hole on the body, it made the guitar to sound impossibly in tune. Willie’s a good guitarist, but with a worn out instrument like “Trigger”, he should have either repaired it adequately or donned another instrument. It makes him sound more sloppy than he is.

 

SRV number one strat
SRV Lenny Strat - A present from his wife Lenora
SRV White Strat with danelectro lipstick pickups- A present from Charley Wirz
Robert Cray - His Inca Silver 62 strat with mahogany fingerboard
Jimmie Vaughan - His hot rodded White Strat with pin up girl sticker
Billy Gibbons - Pearly Gates - Gibson Les Paul

 

Hideous.

 

Joni and her Martin D-28, stolen in the mid-'70s and never returned. This pic is from 1968:

 

Not being an expert however didn't Gibson have a Johnny Smith model jazz guitar? Not too many guitars named after individuals.

 

Duane Allman's 1958 Les Paul or the 1957 Goldtop he used on the Layla
Andy Powell's 1959 Flying V or his 1967 Flying V
Rory Gallagar's beat to hell Strat
SRV Strat
Framton's 3 pick Les Paul Custon
The Owl's 1954 Les Paul
Dickey Bett's Les Paul Goldtop Goldie
Santana's P90 SG
My 1973 Les Paul Goldtop

 

it's his signature...I understand where you are coming from...that Guitar is an ICON!

 

beautiful pic!

 

Jonny Greenwood and his Fender Starcaster. I don't know of anyone else who's used one extensively:



And with his Tele Plus, before he put a Honda sticker behind the bridge:

 

Gibson also did jazz boxes for Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and Trini Lopez. Maybe others too.

 

And there’s our winner right there...cherry Sunburst Les Pau sums up Rock N Roll in one image, for me personally at least.

 

Geordie Walker from Killing Joke with his golden harp, a Gibson ES-295:

 

He's more famous for his red strat than anything else IMO.

 

I can’t see the image; who was it?

 

Mark Knopfler with a National guitar.

 

I think you're right but even the record company doesn't seem to be sure wich one is more iconic than the other...

The first best-of (1988) :

Money for Nothing (album) - Wikipedia

The second one (1998) :

Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits - Wikipedia

The third and last one so far (2005) :

Private Investigations (album) - Wikipedia

 

I usually think of this guitar with Chuck Berry:

 

Quay Lewd's guitar?

 

So does Derek Trucks' red SG.

 

There's so many...... But here's mine. Syd Barrett with his Mirrored Fender Esquire. Many think it was a Telecaster, but it wasn't. It only had one pickup in the bridge position.

 

Les Claypool's Carl Thompson basses

 

Pat Metheny and his MIDI guitar connected to either a Roland guitar synth or a Synclavier.
Adrian Belew and his Roland G-707 guitar with the GR-700 synth.
I mostly think of MIDI synth guitars when I hear artists with guitars or I think of real guitars.
Maybe Slash and the Les Paul, or Jimi Hendrix and the Strat for non-synth guitars.

 

Bet it sounds great through a wah wah pedal.